Ice T Changes ‘Cop Killer’ Lyrics To ‘ICE Killer’ As He Says ‘We’re Headed In Some Very Ugly Terrain’

80s/90s rap legend Ice T may play a cop on Law & Order SVU, but he’s always keen to remind everyone that he’s no fan of them in real life and especially not of ICE and what they’ve been up to recently.

The 67-year-old West Coast icon has now seized the opportunity to modernise his 1992 hit ‘Cop Killer’ by switching the lyrics to ‘ICE Killer’, which he’s actually been doing as far back as July during his Warped Tour performances with Body Count.

Ice told the Breakfast Club this week: “When I did that, that didn’t happen just recently; that happened in L.A. when we played the Warped Tour. When I was there, ICE was active out there. I’m in the midst of ICE raids. I’m in front of an L.A. audience and it just came up.”

He continued: “I didn’t know I was gon’ do it. It’s time to play ‘Cop Killer’ and my brain just said, ‘Do ‘Ice Killer.” But of course, when the girl [Renee Good] got killed, they bring that press to the front. They had me in the news fighting with the police and it was two years old. When a cop pulled me over and it made it to the news.”

“You know ‘ICE Killer,’ ‘Cop Killer’ it’s really protest. I’m just protesting. Like I said, I think we’re headed in some very ugly terrain and Black people ain’t got nothing to do with it. It’s bad. I think the moment somebody shoots an ICE agent, it’s gon’ get bad.”

Ice T has played a cop longer than any other TV character in history, so I can’t help but wonder whether this is one of the greatest, longest, most lucrative trolls in history, or whether he really is as aggressively anti-law enforcement as he claims to be. Maybe he should change his name too, since it has ICE in it?

According to The Guardian, at least eight people have been killed by ICE agents or killed in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2026.

For the time Ice T’s wife Coco defended breastfeeding their 5-year-old daughter, click HERE.